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The LORD is near - Wednesday, November 12, 2025
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The Son of Man (13)—Glorifying God

When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him. If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and glorify Him immediately.”
John 13:31–32

The Son of Man (13)—Glorifying God
What a wonderful thought that God has been glorified in a Man, the Son of Man, His own beloved Son. For thousands of years, God had been dishonored in men. At last a blessed Man was found who would only and always glorify Him. Here of course, in today’s text, the cross is in view.

Judas had just gone out into the night, and, as the Lord knew, would soon betray the blessed Lord into the hand of His enemies. Yet how wonderful the perspective in the Gospel of John that Christ speaks of Himself as the Son of Man about to be glorified. The thought of glory is often defined as displayed excellence. Glory is the revealing of the attributes of a person. And truly on the cross all that the Lord is as the Son of Man has been displayed. We see His perfect obedience, love, and holiness.

God, then, has also been glorified by this Son of Man, as well as revealed in all His attributes in Him by His going to the cross. We now fully see demonstrated that God is light and God is love, as John’s first epistle makes known. How else but in the cross could all that God is have been fully told out to His creatures?

This Son of Man, who has so glorified Him, God will also glorify in Himself, as the Lord entered as a Man that eternal glory He ever had with the Father (Jn. 17:5). And while in a day soon to come this wonderful Son of Man will be publicly honored in this world that rejected Him, God has straightway glorified Him at His own right hand. By faith we see Him there crowned with glory and honor (Heb. 2:9).

Kevin Quartell

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